Mary Berry

Dame Mary Berry is one of the UK's best loved cookery writers and television personalities. She was awarded a Damehood in the 2020 birthday honours list for services to broadcasting, the culinary arts and charity work.

Mary is known worldwide for her work as a judge on Best Home Cook and The Great British Bake Off, along with its spin off series. She also presented Love Productions' The Great American Baking Show for NBC.

Alongside her regular annual food & interview series - the most recent of which, Mary's Foolproof Dinners, aired in October 2024 - Mary has presented Mary Berry’s Country House Secrets and Mary Berry Saves Christmas. In 2019 she joined forces with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in A Berry Royal Christmas, preparing a festive feast to thank volunteers working over the Christmas period.

Mary trained at The Cordon Bleu in Paris and Bath School of Home Economics, and in the 1960s she became the cookery editor of Housewife magazine, and later, Ideal Home magazine. She first appeared on television in the 1970’s and has since written over eighty cookery books with sales of over six million copies.

She has won many awards including Good Housekeeping Award for Food Book of the Year and Best TV Judge at the National TV Awards. In 2012 Mary was honoured with a CBE for services to culinary arts.